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Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams.
Think not about your frustrations,
but about your unfulfilled potential.
Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in,
but with what it is still possible for you to do.
- Pope John XXIII
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I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar,
but I cherish the friend who for me
does not consult his calendar.
- Robert Brault
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
- Marianne Williamson
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When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition,
is not only a waste of energy
but the worst habit you could possibly have.
- Dale Carnegie
The world is perfect. It's a mess.
It has always been a mess.
We are not going to change it.
Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
- Joseph Campbell
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing,
of just going along,
listening to all the things you can't hear,
and not bothering.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
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It's not the size of the dog in the fight,
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain
Treat those who are good with goodness,
and also treat those who are not good with goodness.
Thus goodness is attained.
Be honest to those who are honest,
and be also honest to those who are not honest.
Thus honesty is attained.
- Lao Tzu
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
The beauty does not live out there;
the beauty's in my eyes.
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Self-respect is not a function of size, age, or wealth.
Breathe deep, sing loud and sweet,
"I am me, I am unique, I am magnificent."
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The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
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Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
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Life is not supposed to be fair.
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The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
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Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
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Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
You will not be punished for your anger,
you will be punished by your anger.
- The Buddha
We cannot change anything until we accept it.
Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
- Carl Jung
Experience is not what happens to a man.
It is what a man does with what happens to him.
- Aldous Huxley
We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past,
but by the love we're not extending in the present.
- Marianne Williamson
Be careful not to do your good deeds
when there's no one watching you.
- Tom Lehrer
Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our lives are defined not by the challenges we encounter,
but by how we respond to those challenges.
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Life does not consist mainly,
or even largely, of facts or happenings.
It consist mainly of the storm of thoughts
that is forever flowing through one's head.
- Mark Twain
Life is not about how fast you run
or how high you climb
but how well you bounce.
- Vivian Komori
Belief fuels our decisions -
even when we are not clearly aware of those beliefs.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Understanding does not cure evil,
but it is a definite help,
inasmuch as one can cope
with a comprehensible darkness.
- Carl Jung
If not us, who, if not now, when?
- Anonymous
To achieve success, stay relaxed - not stressed.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle,
and the life of the candle will not be shortened.
Happiness never decreases by being shared.
- The Buddha
I look only to the good qualities of men.
Not being faultless myself,
I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Life is NOT a constant emergency.
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The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The importance of history is in it's
educational value for our lives today,
not in regret, resentment, or revenge.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The world moves, and ideas that were
once good are not always good.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
If one does not understand a person,
one tends to regard him as a fool.
- Carl Jung
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.
If we did not sometimes taste of adversity,
prosperity would not be so welcome.
- Anne Bradstreet
However many holy words you read, however many you speak,
what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
- The Buddha
We know what a person thinks not when he tells us
what he thinks, but by his actions.
- Isaac Bashevis Singe
Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect.
If it's not based on respect,
nothing that appears to be good will last very long.
- Amy Grant
Life is now.
There was never a time when your life was not now,
nor will there ever be.
- Eckhart Tolle
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
It is not work that kills men; it is worry.
Worry is rust upon the blade.
- Henry Ward Beecher
We did not change as we grew older;
we just became more clearly ourselves.
- Lynn Hall
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek,
but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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